CHARITY JOBS IN AFRICA

Organization: Heshima Kenya
Country: Kenya
Closing date: 18 Jan 2015

Position Description:

Heshima Kenya is a nonprofit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya dedicated to identifying, protecting refugee children and empowering unaccompanied and separated refugee children especially adolescent girls, through our specialized shelter, education and advocacy programs. The Social Worker will carry out Child protection program activities within the urban refugee program funded by UNHCR. The Social Worker will be responsible for the management, planning, assessing and implementing of the Child Protection Program activities and will report to Child Protection Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management, planning, assessing and implementing of all the child protection activities.
• Support in the design and implementation of program activities.
• To coordinate the daily and weekly activities and prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly reports.
• Conduct Best Interest Assessment and Best Interest Determination interviews and prepare reports for all identified children.
• Conduct home visits and referrals to check programs.
• Identify and initiate alternative care arrangement for vulnerable children and children at risk.
• Provide case management services to identified children and foster families.
• Identify alternative care arrangement for identified children and children at risk.
• Ensure that all protection issues are effectively handled; communicate relevant and urgent details to the Child Protection Manager and the Country Director.
• Work closely and collaborate with relevant program staff on a weekly basis about specific cases, progress, and follow-up for referrals.
• Oversee case management services, i.e. counseling, social support, educational and training programs, home visits, family tracing, and reunification activities and ensure follow up is conducted in a timely manner.
• Maintain accurate and timely case records of activities and plans, Write detailed and highly accurate summaries and report.
• Conduct outreach with the respective refugee communities regarding Heshima Kenya’s services, foster good relationships with communities with the goal of strengthening community referral structures, care and support services within the community.
• Effectively meet all program goals and targets. Report any challenges or difficulties in meeting program goals immediately to the Child protection Manager.
• Complete reports accurately and on time and submit to the Child Protection Manager and relevant partners as required.
• Assist in strengthening of Heshima Kenya’s referral network.
• Attend weekly staff meetings and contribute to feedback and ideas.
• Perform other duties as assigned in the implementation of program activities.
• Learn and understand thoroughly Heshima Kenya’s mission, vision, programs and goals.
• Represent Heshima Kenya in a highly professional and dignified manner.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Social Work, Community Development, International Relation or Humanitarian Affairs and /or Psychology.
• 3-5 years of professional experience, preferably working with refugee populations and/or with refugee children.
• 2-4 years working at the program management level, including leading or assisting with designing, implementing and managing projects.
• Extensive experience in implementing culturally appropriate social work and mental health interventions for people who have suffered trauma and torture.
• Must be a Kenyan citizen; preference to female candidates; knowledge of refugee language desirable (Somali, Amharic, or Oromo ).
• Must have a certificate of good conduct.
• Skilled at carrying out program needs assessments and program development.
• Excellent oral and written communication and reporting skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ready to work as a team.
• Able to work independently and as a team.
• Must be highly organized, creative, detail oriented and work effectively under pressure with competing priorities.
• Excellent research, data-collection, organizational and time management skills.
• Strong knowledge of Nairobi, especially refugee-based areas, clinics, primary schools and social service providers and knowledge of refugee communities.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word and the internet.

How to apply:

Send your application letter and a detailed CV with daytime telephone contact by email to:

The Country Director, Heshima Kenya. P.O Box 63192-00619. Nairobi/ Email: info@heshimakenya.org

Deadline for applications is 18^th January 2015

Organization: Heshima Kenya
Country: Kenya
Closing date: 18 Jan 2015

Position Overview:

Heshima Kenya is a nonprofit organization based in Nairobi Kenya dedicated to identifying, protecting refugee children and empowering unaccompanied and separated refugee children, especially adolescent girls, through our specialized shelter, education and advocacy programs. The incentive worker will carry out program goals and objectives associated with all child protection programs and be responsible for the implementing of Heshima Kenya’s Child Protection program in the urban areas with support from the social workers and counselors. The incentive worker will ensure the best interests of the children as priority. The incentive worker will report to the Child Protection Manager.

Primary responsibilities

• Support all outreach activities, mobilizing of refugees, distributing of brochures and in identifying of vulnerable children and Unaccompanied and Separated refugee children.
• Provide knowledge and support to the children in the community to empower them with information and create awareness about the different organizational mandates and services.
• Responsible for providing information and updates of events taking place in the community and sharing of key information with the child protection staff.
• Ensure smooth running of program activities and timely reporting.
• Support the Social workers and counselors to identify foster care families for vulnerable children.
• Conduct home visits on a weekly basis. During home visits, interact with children and accurately assess questionable situations to identify suspected child protection incidents while also building rapport and trust with parents in the community, and using it as a basis for inquiring as to the well-being of children living in the community.
• Provide case summaries of identified children on a weekly basis, and provide detailed written monthly reports outlining issues identified and referrals made during visits.
• Ability to establish trusting and positive relationships with children of all ages.
• Coordinate closely with other partners and the District Children’s Officer and other legal and institutional frameworks and promote the sustainability of initiatives undertaken.
• Represent Heshima Kenya at external meetings as may be requested by the Child Protection Manager.
• Be a strong advocate for children’s best interest in all care arrangements and wider discussions affecting children’s rights and welfare.
• Support compliance to the Child Protection Policy.
• Perform other duties as required.

Qualifications and Experience

Education

• Secondary certificate or preferable a certificate in community development and social work. Trained in Community Mobilization, SGBV, FGM, Refugee Rights and Community Services etc.

Skills and Competencies

• Computer literacy a must: excellent working knowledge with WORD and EXCEL.
• Good knowledge of human rights framework and working experience in counseling.
• Experience in capacity building including facilitation of community-based training and awareness rising.
• Good knowledge of child rights and prevention and response to SGBV issues.
• Good knowledge of Nairobi and its environs.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proficiency in English and Swahili. and preferable a Somali, Congolese speaking.

How to apply:

Send your application letter and a detailed CV with daytime telephone contact by email to:

The Country Director, Heshima Kenya. P.O Box 63192-00619. Nairobi/ Email: info@heshimakenya.org

Deadline for applications is 18^th January 2015

Country: Liberia
Closing date: 31 Oct 2014

TERMS OF REFERENCE

SOCIAL WORKER / PSYCHOSOCIAL

Background on CTG Global

CTG Global is a managed services company specializing in recruitment, management consultancy, human resources support services in disaster affected and post conflict countries around the world. We provide services to international humanitarian aid organizations, governments, and development agencies, to alleviate the administration burden enabling them to focus their management on the core business objectives. Our model is particularly well designed and proven to work in hostile and threatening environments to ensure our clients continue to have a reliable HR output. CTG Global ensures our services and consultants are selected for their suitability to operate in the environment regardless of its insecurity. We relieve our clients of any liability and mitigate any risk involved in placing personnel into regions deemed less secure.

Background on the Project

For this requirement CTG Global is required to provide Foreign Medical Teams (FMT) in support of the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Staff will be require to provide clinical management functions of Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) across Liberia.

Monrovia urgently requires at least 1,000 ETU beds (currently there are only 240 ETU beds set up in Monrovia), while Freetown and its surrounding areas require a minimum of 250 as soon as possible (currently there are 15 ETU beds in Freetown).

The level of care offered inside the ETUs, while basic (especially in the first phase), will encourage families to bring loved ones forward for isolation and care.

Job Description

Specific responsibilities will include but not be limited to organising, supervising and/or executing:

i) Assist staff and public with counselling and psychosocial support and communications.

Qualifications & Attributes

The successful candidate will be able to work results-driven and without direct supervision.

a) Experience

i) Clinical psychologist, or social, anthropology expert with skills in inter-cultural communication, counselling.

ii) Minimum 7 years experience

iii) Solid professional international field experience at senior level with emergency response experience working in fragile states

· Emergency response experience working in fragile states

· Health and disease outbreak background highly desired

· Previous first phase emergency response experience highly desired

iv) Professional experience in Africa, especially within projected performance locations is preferred

b) Skills & Competencies

i) Forward thinking: has a flexible approach to change, is able to work effectively in a variety of situations, seeks improvements and looks to the future

ii) Languages: Fluency in English with strong narrative and verbal communications skills is required, and good working knowledge of French is highly desirable

iii) Flexibility and adaptability to work overtime, often with short notice, to meet deadlines – overtime is likely to include late nights, early mornings, weekends and holidays

c) Other Duties/Requirements:

i) Ability to obtain a worksite location visa

ii) Holds valid Passport from home country

d) Physical Requirements:

i) Confirmed by a medical examination to be “medically and dentally fit”

ii) Full inoculations current and up to date (including but not limited to Yellow Fever, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Rabies and Typhoid Fever).

Applications

Applications should apply through our recruitment division: crisissupport@ctgglobal.com with reference to “BHJOB2678_590” in the email subject line.

Due to the expected high number of applications, we kindly request you to include the following information in your email response:

1) Salary Expectation: (per month)

2) Available Deployment Date:

3) Reason for Applying:

4) Qualifications suitable for the position:

URGENT APPOINTMENT therefore deadline for applications is 2300 (Dubai time) on 19^th October 2014.

These Terms of Reference have been designed as a guide to the position and are not likely to be the definitive responsibilities and are not designed to restricted ability to improve in any area identified has a requirement for attention. CTG as a small and growing company relies on its staff keeping an open mind, a flexible approach to work and a dedication and loyalty to its business development.

How to apply:

Applications

Applications should apply through our recruitment division: crisissupport@ctgglobal.com with reference to “BHJOB2678_590” in the email subject line.